How to paint skin under semi-transparent negligee?

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

As the title says. I am currently painting two female vampires for Frostgrave who wear tan negligee. Any ideas?

[Madao]

I have no clue, but have you considered painting the skin with 'regular' colors and then dry brush grey/white as fabric?

Edited January 28 by Madao

[Lysimachus]

See-through cloth for 40k Slaaneshi worshippers, you say? 

 

I did this for an Inq28 warband:

 

 

The sleeves are supposed to look like semi-transparent silk? I painted the arms in the appropriate skin tone, then added several glazes of very thinned down grey until it had the effect i wanted.

 

I should think you could do the same with a tan colour? You'd have to be careful it didn't just make the skin tone darker, though...?

[Grotsmasha]

Basically, paint the skin normally, then glaze very, very thin coats of whtever colour negligee you're doing. It should be the most see through at any point it is touching the skin, and the most coloured on the folds, kind of opposite to how we normally shade and highlight.

[Evil Eye]

Grotsmasha and Lysimachus explained it best. Paint the skin as, well, skin, and then apply some very, very thin glazes over the top with the colour of the fabric. Would be worth testing first to get it just right, but it's actually easier than it sounds.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

I have done it like this:

I painted the garment as usual. All parts of the garment which has direct contact to skin was brightly highlighted indicating that under the fabric is pale skin shining through. It turned out to look okay.

 

But what was not working at all was trying to paint the eyes. They were just too small. When I took pictures of the model with my camera I realized that I mistook the eye lids as the eyes on the model. Total ! And it didn´t improve after several attempts. Furthermore I made an error and used Pale Wych Skin from Citadel as one of the paint ingredients for the skin. This has the consistency of chalk and when it dries it looks like the model is covered in mortar. I have to do her again when I am in the mood again to paint non-GW models.

Edited February 3 by Firedrake Cordova
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[Bryan Blaire]

Missed this originally, but you may find this video helpful: